Word: cossack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shah is not the man his father was-but he never wanted to be. His father, an illiterate Cossack officer who founded a dynasty and unified and modernized Iran, was cruel and extravagant. When he slept in a town, all its dogs were killed lest one bark; he jailed his opponents, hung them by their heels and kicked out their teeth. With an army crop he once whipped a mullah. On the plus side, he reorganized the army, ended child marriage, unveiled the women, codified the civil...
...America entry, and a church window made of colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals was a high-school prize for oratory...
More modestly the buildup began for the new Premier, the Cossack with the shady past and forbidding presence who stepped from Stalin's shadow into the role of No. 1. Nobody cried: "Stalin is dead, long live Malenkov!" Molotov, in his funeral oration, did not even mention Malenkov's name. Beria, in his single reference to Malenkov, identified him as "the talented pupil of Lenin and the faithful comrade-in-arms of Stalin...
BORN: Jan. 8, 1902. ORIGIN: Cossack from Ural region. PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS: Height, 5 ft. 7 in.; weight, 250 Ibs. FAMILY STATUS: Married to an actress, his second wife; two children...
...week: Colonel Frank Kelso Hyatt, 67, third president of the Pennsylvania Military College-the school his grandfather and his father ran before him. A rugged, grey-haired man who once, as a captain in the Pennsylvania National Guard Cavalry, set something of a record by riding 17 horses, Cossack-style, Hyatt has seen his campus grow from 150 to 600 cadets, has watched over every student from reveille to taps. Last week, as he stepped down, the PMC corps staged a full dress parade in his honor. "I thought to myself," said Colonel Hyatt, "this is the last time...